[shinjitsu]

I was a subscriber 10-15 years ago, but I used steam/proton now, I wonder how large the market for something like codeweavers is in 2023?

[Rebelgecko]

The majority of the work on Proton is actually being doing by Codeweavers. IIRC they even control the main github repo

[mattl]

Codeweavers is paid by Valve to work on Proton

[yjftsjthsd-h]

I suspect that even means that, courtesy of Proton, CodeWeavers now is used by and indirectly paid for by more people than ever:)

[mattl]

I’m sure. I’ve been a paid user of Crossover for a while but I mainly use it on my Steam Deck now

[saghm]

I'm also a previous Crossover customer who now uses proton (via lutris). I have to wonder if something like Crossover necessarily needs to exist in the long term; I suspect that part of the rationale for it was that they needed some sort of UI to present/sell the real work they did to make stuff run smoothly without needing users to do a bunch of manual Wine configuration. Obviously there are business caveats to tying yourself so closely to only one paying customer, but it doesn't seem like there's much of a technical need for the work they do to be tied to an in-house UI.

[mattl]

I’m still paying for it and will keep doing so. I hope it never goes away.